United States v. Neifert-White Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that fraudulent invoices used as a basis to apply for a loan from the Commodity Credit Corporation is a claim covered by the FCA
• finding that the FCA statute was “intended to reach all types of fraud, without qualification, that might result in a financial loss to the [government”
• explaining that a prior version of the FCA extended to “all fraudulent attempts to cause the Govern- ment to pay out sums of money” (emphasis added)
• noting that “this remedial statute reaches beyond ‘claims’ which might be legally enforced, to all fraudulent attempts to cause the Government to pay out sums of money”
• noting that “the Court has consistently refused to accept a rigid, restrictive reading [of the Act]”
• noting that the FCA “was intended to reach all types of fraud .. . that might result in financial loss to the Government”

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